1 Timothy

 The Pastoral Epistles (1 and 2 Timothy and Titus) are thought to be Paul’s last letters, with 2 Timothy being his last.  Many assume that Paul was released from his house imprisonment in Rome mentioned in Acts 28:30, and that events described here were subsequent to that.  If all that is so, by the time he wrote 2 Timothy, it seems he had been arrested and taken to Rome again (cf. 2 Tim.1:17), and he realized his work on earth was nearly over (2 Tim.4:6-8).